Makbi
1.6
Guatemala Department, Guatemala
December 2025
Solar panel installation
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Costa Rica,
Dominican Republic,
Guatemala,
Panama
Makbi is a regional clean energy firm with over 15 years of experience pushing for a more sustainable and resilient energy future throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It designs and provides integrated solar energy, energy storage, and intelligent energy management solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, and large-scale applications. With the implementation of solar photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage solutions (BESS), microgrids, and smart energy infrastructures, Makbi allows businesses to lower carbon emissions, optimize energy consumption, and enhance operational resilience. This service delivery extends beyond mere consultancy and intalletion, feasibility studies, monitoring, operation, and maintenance, ensuring proper long-term performance with a concrete environmental impact. As a Certified B Corporation, Makbi is committed to establishing sustainable social and environmental value as well as delivering economically responsible growth. The company has offices in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, cooperating with operations in 13 countries, whyle organizations aligned with a mission to make responsible, accountable, and long-term impact decisions.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 11.6
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 43.6
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 15.5
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 37.1
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 3.5
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.